Lee Chang-dong

American filmmaker Sean Baker is a huge fan of his work, referring to him as a "modern master".

[speaking about Burning - L'amore brucia (2018) at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival] I saw a huge mystery in this short story by Murakami and I believed that it could turn into a whole series of mysteries and that there could be different layers to the mystery in a film. To begin with, I wanted to give the opportunity to a young director and just produce the film, but that's not how it worked out. Then a screenwriter adapted the short story; I was a bit hesitant, but in fact the mystery in this very short story proved very good for a film.